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Gerald B.H. Solomon, a conservative former congressman from New York who led crusades to punish flag burners and draft dodgers, died today at his home in Glens Falls, N.Y. Mr. Solomon, who retired from the House in 1998, died from congestive heart...

October 27, 2001, Saturday

For 20 years, Gerald B. H. Solomon represented the 22d Congressional District in New York with such probusiness gusto that environmentalists called him ''the Congressman from General Electric.'' It was not meant as a compliment, but Mr. Solomon, a...

Amid the many skeptical voices about the timing of the air strikes against Iraq, few were blunter or quicker on the draw than that of Gerald B. H. Solomon, the chairman of the House Rules Committee and the Representative from this gentle land of...

House Democratic and Republican leaders this week will try to resolve an increasingly contentious debate over exempting the Judiciary Committee from many House rules as the panel reviews President Clinton's conduct in the Lewinsky matter. The...

To the Editor: Last week Carol M. Browner, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, appeared in Albany to attack the General Electric Company on the issue of PCB's and the Hudson River (news article, July 10).

Representative Gerald B. H. Solomon, New York's most influential member of the House of Representatives, announced today that he would retire at the end of the year, delivering yet another blow to the state's stature in Congress. Mr. Solomon, a...

April 28, 1998, Tuesday

As support for campaign finance reform legislation builds in the House of Representatives, the lawmakers who have not signed on to the cause are getting more conspicuous. Yesterday we listed the Republicans in the New York metropolitan area who have...

The Mayors of five cities urged the Clinton Administration on Friday to allow Federal money to be used for needle exchange programs for drug users, but an influential Congressman said he would act to stop such a move. The Mayors, who serve in San...

An upstate Congressman yesterday told Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York City and Sheldon Silver of Manhattan, the Speaker of the State Assembly, not to put downstate parochialism above the need for a dairy compact to help upstate farmers. ...

March 7, 1998, Saturday

The Environmental Protection Agency's decision to delay its final report on PCB contamination of the Hudson River exasperated New Yorkers who have waited 20 years for a plan of action to clean the river of its most dangerous chemical....